Quotes About Measure

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

I learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. My measure is my heart and what I know.

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of ourselves of our souls.

Now in giving honor to one's parents or to the gods, as indeed the Philosopher says, it is impossible to repay them measure for measure; but it suffices that man repay as much as he can, for friendship does not demand measure for measure, but what is possible.

Had reason ever created a poem, or a symphony, or a painting? If rationality can't see things like the secret commonwealth, it's because rationality's vision is limited. The secret commonwealth is there. We can't see it with rationality any more than we can weigh something with a microscope: it's the wrong sort of instrument. We need to imagine as well as measure ...

Criticism of religion is the very measure of the guarantee of free speech — the literal sacred institution of society.102

Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

The kissing was supposed to take me away from all the problems. All the thoughts. All the doubts. But now when I kissed her, I was always measuring how much of her was there. And I was wondering how much of me was left.

When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us.

How can I be secure? (Pause.) Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

action, including dialogue, is fast, and accelerates; reflective writing is a brake and slows—and they will set off a pumping action that makes the story breathe. The speed of that breathing is set by the measure of action to reflection. More action, less reflection—faster. More reflection, less action—slower.

It is not hope, but despair, which gives the measure of our ambitions. The finest poems of hope are sung in secret, but grief appears without a veil.

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

If a man is convinced that he is safe only as long as he uses his power to give others a sense of insecurity, then the measure of their security is in his hands. If security or insecurity is at the mercy of a single individual or group, then control of behavior becomes routine. All imperialism functions in this way. Subject peoples are held under control by this device.

How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.

Take everything in moderation, including moderation.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success

We measure our own humanity by how we respond to the unprogrammed, the unpredictable.

Toma el trigo, no la medida que lo contiene.

To go too far is as bad as not to go far enough.

God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

Aristotle (384–322 BC), the Greek philosopher, held that time is simply the measure of motion. Time is the measure of one physical process against another.